For example, Bernard Lewis states, "At no time did the classical jurists offer any approval or legitimacy to what we nowadays call terrorism.
Prof. Schulz, however, notes the reluctance of classical Roman jurists to formulate principles.
Or ought it rather to suggest that the texts do not record the words of the classical jurists very precisely?
The study of the works of classical jurists and of the imperial constitutions provided the basis of legal education at Beirut's law school.
The schools of Sunni Islam are each named by students of the classical jurist who taught them.
This was also the view of Sabinus, but it was rejected by other classical jurists.
In Islamic military jurisprudence, classical jurists laid down severe penalties for rebels who use "stealth attacks" and "spread terror".
However, many classical jurists held that such covering was nonetheless strongly recommended, or even required in times of fitnah.
The new concepts and legal institutions developed by pre-classical and classical jurists are too numerous to mention here.
Thus an interest rate that did not exceed the rate of inflation was not riba according to classical Islamic jurists.